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Team Score Finder

Justin Kubatko — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:48:40 +0000

I have added a Team Score Finder to the Basketball-Reference.com Play Index. With this new tool you can answer questions like:

If you have any questions or comments about the Team Score Finder, please leave them here or use our feedback system. Thanks and enjoy!

Search Our Stats Using the Play Index

Neil — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:40:22 +0000

It's the Finals, so that means it's time for a reminder to check out the Basketball-Reference Play Index. In case you don't already know about the PI, it's a set of research tools that allow you to create customizable queries on our database, save the results, and share them with others. With the PI, you can:

Use the Player Season Finder to search through all NBA, ABA, & BAA players' regular season and playoff statistics for performances that match your criteria.
Use the Player Game Finder to search through NBA players' regular season and playoff game logs (since 1985-86) for games matching your criteria.
Use the Head-to-Head Finder to search for games in which two selected players played against each other.
Search for player and team consecutive-game streaks that match your criteria using the Streak Finders.
Search for team performances that meet your criteria with the Team Season Finder and Team Game Finder.
Use the Draft Finder to search through every NBA/BAA draft for picks that match your criteria.
Use the Player Comparison Finder to compare the stats of up to four players through (or in) a given season.

Also, take a look at the Play Index Plus for even more data-searching goodness. The PI+ lets you sift through the play-by-play data of every game since 2001, making it possible to look for specific events, lineup data, and shooting stats (including clutch shots and shot breakdowns by distance).

Best of all, these features are 100% free to use! So go ahead, give them a try, and you'll wonder how you ever got along without them.

BBR’s Most Wanted: Line Scores

Justin Kubatko — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:56:22 +0000

I am very close to having a complete set of proofed line scores (i.e., scoring by quarter) for the 1950-51 NBA season forward. By "proofed" I mean that I have verified that the line score total equals the team point total. There are almost 55,000 regular season and playoff games in that period, but I only have 21 12 issues that need to be resolved.

First, here are the cases where the line score total does not match the team's point total:

195111100BOS BOS pts  83 (game)  84 (line) Found!
195812270PHW PHW pts 114 (game) 115 (line) Found!
195812270PHW STL pts 108 (game) 105 (line) Found!
196003090DET MNL pts 116 (game) 117 (line) Found!
196011050STL STL pts 119 (game) 120 (line) Found!
196111180STL CIN pts 133 (game) 136 (line) Found!
196203040SYR SYR pts 115 (game) 105 (line) Found!
196301310SYR SYR pts 112 (game) 102 (line)
196403010DET SFW pts 100 (game)  94 (line)
196403170LAL PHI pts  97 (game)  94 (line)
196602160NYK SFW pts 108 (game) 106 (line)

Second, here are the games that are missing line scores:

195011040WSC MNL and WSC
195011110NYK SYR and NYK Found!
195011110WSC BOS and WSC Found!
195011150MNL SYR and MNL
195011220BLB NYK and BLB
195011250WSC SYR and WSC
195101060WSC FTW and WSC
195102220NYK TRI and NYK
195103290SYR NYK and SYR Found!
196203120LAL NYK and LAL

I have almost exhausted the resources that I have at my disposal, so I would be very grateful if any of you could lend a hand. You can post additions/corrections here or submit them using our feedback form. Please supply documentation to support your claim. Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.

NBA Playoffs Section

Neil — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:46:34 +0000

NBA Playoffs Section

BBR Player Similarity Scores

Neil — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:46:22 +0000

Player Similarity Scores

Player Playoff Gamelogs

Neil — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:00:26 +0000

To see how any player has performed in every 2013 playoff game he's played, check out his playoff gamelogs! Go to a player's page, select 2012-13 from the gamelogs dropdown, and scroll down to the playoff table.

Video: S-R Stat Table SHARE Tutorial

Neil — Mon, 13 May 2013 20:38:52 +0000

Here's a 2-minute tutorial on how to embed professional-looking stat tables on your own blog:

Happy Birthday to Basketball-Reference.com!

Justin Kubatko — Fri, 10 May 2013 13:00:03 +0000

Today is the ninth anniversary of the launch of Basketball-Reference.com. BBR debuted as a standalone website on May 10, 2004, but of course it is now part of the Sports-Reference.com family of sites.

I still do 99 percent of the work on the site, so I take great pride in its growth over the years. How much has it grown? The site's traffic is now almost 400 percent higher than it was just five years ago.

That growth, of course, would not be possible without our dedicated users, so in addition to the birthday wishes I would also like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who has played a part in making this site what it is today.

Follow us on Twitter to Win a Free Baseball-Reference.com Play Index Subscription

admin — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:13:49 +0000

Every Monday, for the rest of the year, we'll be randomly selecting one twitter user who follows any three of our five Sports Reference Twitter accounts to receive a free Baseball-Reference.com Play Index account. If you are already a subscriber, we'll extend you for a year.

Sports Reference uses twitter to tweet out nuggets of information we find, notify users of new features, make occasional commercial messages, and generally enjoy ourselves. Here are the five Sports Reference twitter feeds:

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Updates to NBL, D-League, and WNBA Sections

Justin Kubatko — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:05:27 +0000

I've made some updates to the NBL, D-League, and WNBA sections of Basketball-Reference.com:

Each section now has a navigation bar near the top of every page, making it much easier to jump from one subsection to another.
A subsection has been added to the WNBA section for WNBA coaches.
Basic biographical information has been added for some WNBA players.
Footnotes have been added to the NBL standings to note cases where franchises moved or folded, teams had forfeit wins or losses, etc.

Please let us know if you have any question or comments about these changes.